101 Picture Book Challenge

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The 101 Picture Book Challenge is designed to provide all children with a strong foundation of words, reading, and stories to build literacy.

We picked 101 of our favorite picture books and we want you to read them, too. Our list includes classics, new titles, and everything in between. Pick up a keepsake book to track reading at any location or sign up today to track electronically with Beanstack.

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101 Picture Book Challenge

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Book Cover: Are You My Mother? Book Cover: One Duck Stuck Book Cover: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type Book Cover: Frog and Toad Are Friends (An I Can Read Book) Book Cover: Stranger in the Woods: A Photographic Fantasy Book Cover: Ten, Nine, Eight Book Cover: Tar Beach Book Cover: Gossie and Gertie Book Cover: Hush! A Thai Lullaby Book Cover: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! Book Cover: Duck! Rabbit! Book Cover: No, David! Book Cover: Interrupting Chicken Book Cover: Olivia Book Cover: Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom (Caldecott Honor Book) Book Cover: Calvin Can't Fly: The Story of a Bookworm Birdie Book Cover: Flora and the Flamingo Book Cover: A Sick Day for Amos McGee Book Cover: Journey Book Cover: Mingo the Flamingo Book Cover: Last Stop on Market Street Book Cover: The Story of Ferdinand Book Cover: Amazing Grace Book Cover: Goodnight Moon Book Cover: An Extraordinary Egg Book Cover: Harold and the Purple Crayon Book Cover: The Napping House Book Cover: Enemy Pie (Reading Rainbow book) Book Cover: Time for Bed Book Cover: Beatrice's Goat Book Cover: The Other Side Book Cover: Good Night, Gorilla Book Cover: Bear Snores On Book Cover: The Peace Book Book Cover: Dear Zoo Book Cover: Waiting for the Biblioburro Book Cover: Rosie Revere, Engineer Book Cover: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? My First Reader Book Cover: In the Tall, Tall Grass Book Cover: Niño Wrestles the World Book Cover: Thunder Boy Jr. Book Cover: Jabari Jumps Book Cover: Guess how much I love you Book Cover: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel Book Cover: Please, Baby, Please Book Cover: A splendid friend, indeed Book Cover: Corduroy (40th Anniversary Edition) Book Cover: Lola at the Library Book Cover: A Good Day Book Cover: The Kissing Hand Book Cover: Press Here Book Cover: Dancing Feet! Book Cover: Not All Princesses Dress in Pink Book Cover: Millions of Cats Book Cover: In a Village by the Sea Book Cover: Harry the Dirty Dog Book Cover: Abigail the Whale Book Cover: The Mitten, 20th Anniversary Edition Book Cover: Dario and the Whale Book Cover: The True Story of the Three Little Pigs Book Cover: Stack the Cats Book Cover: It Looked Like Spilt Milk Board Book Book Cover: The Rainbow Fish Book Cover: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? (Caldecott Honor Book) Book Cover: Green Eggs and Ham Book Cover: Bread and Jam for Frances Book Cover: Frog on a log Book Cover: Pete the cat. Book Cover: Strega Nona Book Cover: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book and Plush Book Cover: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Book Cover: Worm Loves Worm Book Cover: Guess Who, Haiku Book Cover: Thunder Cake Book Cover: Cat Knit Book Cover: What Can You Do with a Paleta? Book Cover: Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business Book Cover: The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred Book Cover: The Monster at the End of This Book Book Cover: Bark, George Book Cover: Dragons Love Tacos Book Cover: Maddi's Fridge Book Cover: The Three Pigs Book Cover: I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! (Ala Notable Children's Books. Younger Readers (Awards)) Book Cover: The Doghouse Book Cover: The Princess and the Pig Book Cover: Stuck Book Cover: I Want My Hat Back Book Cover: The Day the Crayons Quit Book Cover: The Book with No Pictures Book Cover: Mother Bruce Book Cover: Everyone Poops Book Cover: Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Businesss Book Cover: The Princess and the Pig Book Cover: The Snowy Day Book Cover: Llama Llama Red Pajama Book Cover: Where the Wild Things Are Book Cover: Max's Dragon Shirt

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